What are the three ways to use foundational AI security?

It depends on how you want to interface with it. Run the platform yourself, where your team operates the agents directly, like using an application. Use managed services through PLAID ELITE, with dedicated AI Security Engineers and 24x7 overwatch. Or build on 7AI, where partners and teams build their own services on top, including their own MDR. One foundation, three ways to use it.

What are the three ways to use foundational AI security?

It depends on how you want to interface with it. Run the platform yourself, where your team operates the agents directly, like using an application. Use managed services through PLAID ELITE, with dedicated AI Security Engineers and 24x7 overwatch. Or build on 7AI, where partners and teams build their own services on top, including their own MDR. One foundation, three ways to use it.

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Foundational AI Security

Q: What is foundational AI security?

Foundational AI security is the layer security operations run on: production grade AI agents that detect, investigate, respond, and hunt, grounded in your own environment, with human experts on the loop. It is the layer underneath the security stack, the way a foundation model is the layer underneath ChatGPT or Claude. Tools, consoles, and managed services are applications. Foundational AI security is the foundation they sit on.

Security has an application layer. 7AI built a foundation.

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What is Foundational AI Security?

The Definition

The layer security operations run on.

Production grade AI agents that detect, investigate, respond, and hunt, grounded in your own environment, with humans on the loop. It is the layer underneath the security stack, the way a foundation model is the layer underneath ChatGPT or Claude. One foundation, used three ways.

The Question We Kept Getting

"What is 7AI?" Every answer described what we do. Not where we sit.

AI SOC

One thing we power. Not what we are.

Agentic security

True, but it names the technology. It sounds like a category, not a company.

Investigations

Where teams start. The entry point, not the only point.

A Different Lens

Look at the companies defining this era.

Nobody calls OpenAI or Anthropic a chatbot company or an API vendor. The model is the foundation. Everything else is an application of it, and how you interface with it depends on what you are after.

Use the app

ChatGPT, Claude. You open it and use it directly.

Access the model

Reach it through the API and put it to work in your own flow.

Build on it

Whole products, businesses, and services built on top.

Why It Is a Foundation

AI alone isn't enough. Tools alone aren't enough.

Three things have to come together.

A model on its own can reason but cannot act in your world. Your tools can act but cannot reason across them. The foundation is where AI, your security stack, and the live knowledge graph of your environment meet.

AI agents that reason and act

Your existing security stack

The knowledge graph of your environment

7AI is what puts them together.

One Foundation, Three Ways

How you interface with it depends on what you're after.

The same way you can open Claude, call the model through an API, or build a product on top, foundational AI security meets you at the layer you want.

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Delivered as PLAID ELITE. Dedicated AI Security Engineers run it for you, 24x7, with overwatch on every outcome. Your team gets the result without operating the agents and stays on the loop for the calls that matter.

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Application Layer

Run the Platform

Like opening the app. Your team operates the agents directly, tunes the work, and keeps full transparency into every investigation. Analysts stay on the loop and set the intent.

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Build Layer

Build on 7AI

Like building on the model. Partners and teams build their own services on top of the foundation, including their own MDR, with the agents doing the security work underneath.

Build on the foundation

What Changes on Top of It

Investigations are the entry point. Not the only point.

The first thing the foundation does is take alert triage and investigations off your team. That alone is a relief. The bigger change is what a foundation makes possible once it is there.

Data where it lives

Because the agents reach data where it already sits, you can stop forcing everything into a SIEM first. 7AI Federated SIEM is the capability that lets agents search and correlate across sources without centralizing them, available to design partners today.

Time to get proactive

With triage handled, analysts get hours back. Teams move off the back foot. The same people who were clearing a queue start hunting, tuning, and getting ahead of the threat instead of chasing it.

The work expands

Threat hunting. Detection optimization. Then the next adjacency, and the one after that. Each new capability stands on the same foundation, so security keeps getting better without bolting on another disconnected tool.

That is what makes it foundational, not just a faster SOC.

How It Relates to an AI SOC

An agentic SOC is what you operate. The foundation is what it runs on.

The Foundation

Foundational AI security

The production grade AI agents that detect, investigate, respond, and hunt, grounded in your environment. The layer everything is built on.

The Operating Model

The agentic SOC

How a team puts those agents to work day to day, alongside human analysts who direct the agents and stay on the loop for the calls that matter.

Questions

Foundational AI security, answered.

It is the layer security operations run on: production grade AI agents that detect, investigate, respond, and hunt, grounded in your own environment, with humans on the loop. It is the layer underneath the security stack, the way a foundation model is the layer underneath ChatGPT or Claude. Tools, consoles, and managed services are applications. Foundational AI security is the foundation they sit on.

Because the analogy that fits is the one from AI itself. Nobody calls OpenAI a chatbot company or Anthropic an API vendor. The model is the foundation, and ChatGPT, the API, and the businesses built on top are all applications of it. Security never had that layer. 7AI built it: one foundation of AI agents that security operations are built on, used three different ways.

It depends on how you want to interface with it. Run the platform yourself, where your team operates the agents directly. Have it delivered as a fully managed service through PLAID ELITE, with dedicated AI Security Engineers and 24x7 overwatch. Or build on 7AI, where partners and teams build their own services on top, including their own MDR. One foundation, three ways to use it.

No. Investigations are the entry point, not the only point. Taking alert triage and investigations off the team is the first thing the foundation does. Because the agents reach data where it lives, teams can rethink forcing everything into a SIEM. And once analysts get hours back, the same foundation extends into threat hunting, detection optimization, and the next adjacency. The work keeps expanding on one foundation.

An agentic SOC is what you operate. Foundational AI security is what it runs on. The agents that detect, investigate, respond, and hunt are the foundation. An agentic SOC is the operating model that puts those agents to work alongside human analysts.

No. Foundational AI security is a force multiplier, not a replacement. The agents take on the high volume, repetitive work so human experts can focus on judgment, edge cases, and the work only a person can do. Humans stay on the loop and set the intent.

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